All posts for the month November, 2016

As with most days, today I find the 2016 Election troubling. I hear about how horrible Hilary Clinton is, how she’ll bring about a constitutional crisis and that her email server is the worst thing ever. IT IS WORSE THAN WATERGATE. We aren’t talking about taxes or the size of the government, we are hearing how she’s terrible and there will need to be a violent revolution. Exaggeration? I’ve heard two different sound bites of Trumpers saying they are willing to take up arms, be a patriot and “do what needs to be done.” You tell me if I’m overstating the potential.

And then today the KKK newspaper, the Crusader, endorses Trump. The “Trump Campaign” repudiates the KKK endorsement. Has Cheeto Jesus? Has he ever said he respects all people and wants to see harmony in the USA? No. He wants the guys with yarmulkes counting his money, not the blacks. He retweets people who espouse hate, anti-Semitism and see the diversity of our country as “white genocide.” How is this a thing? If he doesn’t support it, he sure doesn’t dismiss it.

I see too many references to Clinton as “C*nt”. Really? Let’s be honest, Everything Cheeto Jesus does encourages hate. He calls on people’s fears and assures them at only he can save them. He’s working by the axiom that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public.

He hates everything the Clinton has done in her career as a public servant. Ok, he’s entitled to an opinion. What has he ever done for the public good? I cringe when he talks about being a job creator. If he wasn’t making money off the backs of others there would be no jobs. And how do we hold someone up as a “job creator” who refuses to honor contracts and proudly threatens to bury in people in legal expenses when they are upset about not being paid. This is not about quality of service, it is about his need to increase his profits, or lower his losses when he mismanages his business. After all, no successful business person will hold up a man with 4 bankruptcies as a role model. That is the model of failure that got lucky.

But let’s get back to how bad Hilary is. Yes, she used a private email server and was less than forthcoming about it. I know as you read this you are perfect and never did anything wrong. But, let’s be clear. She wasn’t selling state secrets. She wasn’t trying to make confidential information easily available. In fact, the State Department Information Security processes were described as woefully inadequate. So other than originally trying to stay out of the press, what the issue? It wasn’t an ongoing criminal conspiracy. Watergate was. There wasn’t an order to break in someplace. That was Watergate too. There wasn’t illegal wiretapping? Again that was Watergate. So, let’s stop the uneven comparisons. It’s demeaning and ridiculous.

Then there is Benghazi. While I’m tempted to tell you to go fuck yourself, let’s look at a few facts. 4 lives were lost. That was a tragedy. Congress cut the security budget; that was not on Hillary. Trey Gowdy and his misfit witch hunt team have found no smoking gun. There have been more inquires here than Watergate. Oh, and many, many more State Department employees were killed under George W. Bush, but we don’t talk about that.

But, you say, Hillary is untrustworthy. Got it. Let’s look at your heroes. George W. Bush? He and Cheney lied to get us into the war in IRAQ. They abused the public’s trust by manipulating fear to start a war that we did not need to be in. Thousands of lives lost. No, I don’t think she’s fallen to that level.

How about George H.W. Bush? Meh. But he does bear the burden of knowing about Iran Contra and saying he did not. I think that’s pretty bad. Oh, you don’t remember Iran Contra? Let me remind you. The US government funneled money Nicaraguan Contras by selling weapons to Iran. But Hillary negotiated with Iran. Stop it.

But I digress. Trump blasts Hillary for “pay for play politics”. Seriously, people, what other type are there? What are pork barrel politics, if not a version of pay for play? What was Trump’s donation to Biondi about? He brags about paying politicians. Mitch “I’m a turtle” McConnell holds up the Supreme Court nominations because “the NRA needs to approve” them. And that’s not pay for play? That’s not corrupt? Remember Hillary is accused of quid pro quo, accused of having a few meetings. There is no proof. There is no indictment. There still is no smoking gun. But still the Republican Congress looks for it. Clearly the Republican Congress thinks this is a better use of our tax money than infrastructure, creating jobs or embassy security. Pay for play hints at bribery. There is no proof of bridery. Shit, there may not have been any meetings. Next you’ll tell me the Clinton Global Initiative (where nearly 90% of every dollar goes to saving lives, not admin – check that against The United Way) is evil.

How about we stop talking about the monsters under the bed that Hillary must have put there. There are no fucking monsters so stop acting like you are 6. Own up and admit that you just don’t like an uppity woman that deigns to think she can be president. That’s 90% of what bothers you about her. You think she’s overreaching her station. She’s not in the kitchen making you a pie. She thinks for herself and **gasp** she listens to others in a world where we prize men that stand and talk about themselves. Yes she’s not perfect. But she’s way better than most of our politicians. And on political matters she’s far more truthful than most. Of course Rush, Hannity and Alex Jones will poo poo Politifact. Think for yourself.

I know, she’s no role model like our past Speakers of the House. You know, pedophiles and serial cheaters. Those are the people that judge her. Glass houses are breaking all over the country.

Unlike most, I actually like Hillary Clinton. There are aspects of her you don’t like. There are aspects to my personality you don’t like either and sometimes I’m not your biggest fan, but we get along. Why is she held to a different standard? She’s not Teflon. She cares. She tries. So don’t like me. Don’t like her. But stop dragging her through the mud with half-truths and witch hunts. Because, let me remind you about the alternative.

Donald Trump is facing a civil suit over the the alleged fraud he perpetuated with Trump University, stealing the money from those who could least afford it. Fraud. That’s like lying isn’t it?

Donald Trump is going on trial for allegedly RAPING a 13-year old. I know it is hard to fathom. He only grabs them by the Pussy.

Donald Trump admits to being a sexual predator (he’s bragging about it) and more than 11 women have stood up to say that he did it to them. I know that a partisan conspiracy. Taking him on his own merits, isn’t this troublesome? If we can open our eyes to the Evil that was Bill Cosby, why do we dismiss these egregious acts?

Donald Trump was indicted twice over racial discrimination practices with his company. Paying large fines and “not admitting guilt” is not the same as being innocent. I don’t believe he is innocent.

Donald Trump loves to repeat and retweet anti-Semitic and White Supremicist memes. Last I saw, it was reported that he had retweeted 75 different people who believe in #whitegenocide. And I’ll never believe his picture, taken from a racist website, with Hillary and the Star of David was not meant to be Anti-Semitic. I believe Donald Trump is a Racist dog whistler, at the minimum.

Donald Trump support violence if he doesn’t get his way. Remember when he encouraged people at his rally to incite violence, take them out on a stretch, etc.? I do. What about suggesting 2nd Amendment people to “take care of it” if Clinton gets elected? No, I have never believed that was a joke. All the talk of a “rigged election” has people wondering about the potential violence after the election from his most ardent supporters. Words have consequences. Cheeto Jesus doesn’t believe those consequences apply to him.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to think Donald Trump is at minimum being played by Russia to affect their goals. He won’t say a bad word about them. In light of National Security Agencies announcing Russia was behind the DNC and Hillary Campaign hacks, he says “I don’t know.” But no one near Trump or his campaigns was hacked. I do not believe this is a coincidence. We are all vulnerable to hacking. Period. Ponder that. (edit: and now we have been told the Campaign was in frequent contact with Russian officials…. why do we let that slide?)

Remember how Trump is engaged in a (civil, class action suit) trial over the Trump U fraud? Doesn’t it seem odd that NOW he wants to help the common man, the disenfranchised worker? Why yes, he is offering the middle class a 1% tax cut. He’s also offering the very wealth a 10% or more tax cut. So if you make $50k, you will get an extra $35-50 a month or thereabouts. But if you make $5m, you get an extra 40k (and probably much more) per month in benefits. But let’s say you are that 1%, you know the people making $500m (you know, like all the Trumps), you just earned an extra 4-6m in tax breaks. Really? Like they couldn’t survive the 400m or so they already took home?

When Trump brags about not paying taxes because the government would squander it, think about how he spends his money. His home was described as the tacky furnishing of an Iraqi hotel lobby. Have you seen his bathroom, covered in gold? Who squanders what?

Donald Trump hates global markets. But his clothing line is made in China and Mexico. He’s not announced any plans to bring jobs back, just that he will. And I want to be 6’2”. Wanting isn’t a plan.

Donald Trump wants to close our borders. Not to illegal immigrants, but to all immigrants. He wants to go back to racially proportionate norms. Let me translate that. No more brown people, but white people who want to come from Europe, you folks are ok. And you wonder why the KKK supports him.

Not all Trump supporters are racists. But to my knowledge all Racist groups support Trump. That should bother many more people than it does.

Donald Trump runs a charity that he stopped funding in 2008, according to various press reports. The charity was used to settle lawsuits, buy personal items and pay personal expenses. Funded by donations from others, it seems. And it was shut down by the NY Attorney General. Hell, he’d never even filed the right paper work to make the charity legal. But he’s smart enough to be President.

Donald tells it like it is. He mocks the disabled. He calls a beauty queen that gained a few pounds Miss Piggy and humiliates her on TV. He tells Hillary “you’re the puppet.” Whose puppet I wonder? He mocks his political rivals (Lyin’ Ted, Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb – what is it with ‘L’?). He has told us that Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers (oops a few of them might be good people he supposes). He told us a Federal judge, born in Indiana, wasn’t fit to preside over a case because he was Mexican! Seriously.

His battle cry is “LOCK HER UP!” This is the fitting end for a woman guilty of the crime of being a woman who challenges him. I wonder if he should have been locked up? He’s been found liable or settled over 200 law suits over the past 40 (or so) years. Remember he doesn’t settle. That’s some sort of judgement or payment every other month.

I get it. There is so much shit swirling around Cheeto Jesus you’ve blocked it all out. But should you? have we as a country lowered our standards so low that we would even consider this selfish, egotistical blowhard to babysit our kids, let alone the President of our nation?

So when you go to the polls, do you want to vote for the woman continually investigated and never charged (because mistakes aren’t criminal) or do you want to vote for the man about to go to trial fraud (the rape suite has since been dropped). The man with what seems to be a fake charity so that others can pay his expenses. The man who brags about degrading and assaulting women. The man that lies, lies, lies – but it’s ok, he doesn’t mean it. How much actual bad judgement, illegal behavior and selfishness will you ignore while you hold another to the standard that suspects she is evil? Think about the world you want to create.